President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Tran Thanh Man on a tour of Australia. (Photo: VNA) Sydney(VNA) – President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee (VFFCC)Tran Thanh Man met with senior executives of the Royal Melbourne Institute ofTechnology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on December 7.
Man, accompanied byVietnamese Ambassador to Australia Ngo Huong Nam at the meeting, is making atour of Australia from December 6-10.
At the event,Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT Martin Bean spoke highly of theeducational cooperation between Vietnam and Australia in recent years inaccordance with the two countries’ agreements, including the agreement ineducation and training for the 2013-2018 period, the Australia-Vietnam HumanResources Development Programme from 2016-2020, and the Australia AwardsScholarships.
The VFFCC President,for his part, was delighted at RMIT’s launch of new programmes – bachelor’sdegrees in Design Studies, Tourism and Hospitality Management, and Languages – inVietnam this year. He said he looks forward to the university introducing aGraduate Certificate in Business Startups in the future.
He hoped that RMITwill provide short-term courses in English language and administrativemanagement for staff at the VFFCC and support the committee’s new centre fortraining and science studies which will be operational by the end of 2018.
Later the same day,Man visited a high-tech farm of fruits and vegetables, namely Lotus, on theoutskirts of Melbourne run by Thai Son, a Vietnamese expat.
Before leavingMelbourne for Sydney, VFFCC President Man and Ambassador Nam had a talk withVietnamese Business Association of Australia.-VNA
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